Magnus propagator rt tddft


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Hi,

I'm trying to compare some of the benchmark studies done with NWCHEM's rt_tddft module against my code. I'm referring to the following paper to understand the numerical implementation:

K. Lopata, N. Govind,"Modeling Fast Electron Dynamics with Real-Time Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Application to Small Molecules and Chromophores", J. Chem. Theory Comput., 7, 1344 (2011).

For the Magnus propagator, the paper mentions a predictor-corrector scheme to evaluate the Fock matrix at a future time. The predictor step involves a linear extrapolation using Fock matrices at two previous timesteps. I was wondering how is the predictor step performed for the first two time-steps.

Thanks,
Bikash


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